"Modiste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... she decided, "an English type. If she were a Parisian, a modiste and hairdresser would do wonders towards developing her into a beauty of the very rare, very fair order. She suggests a ...
— The Bondwoman • Marah Ellis Ryan
... dressed, too richly. Apparently she had trusted her modiste not wisely but too well: there was the strange and unaccountable inherent love of fine feathers and warm colors which is invariably the mute utterance of peasant blood. She was followed by a Russian, huge ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath
... charm which betokens the genius of a great modiste, and the girls were enchanted ...
— Two Little Women on a Holiday • Carolyn Wells
... was lamentable it should be thrown away on an agricultural husband, who never dreamt that the "Fidelio-III-TstnegeR," which met his eyes in the innocent face of his "Times" referred to an appointment at a Regent Street modiste's, or that the advertisement—"White wins—Twelve," meant that if she wore white camellias in her hair at the opera she would give "Beauty" ...
— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]
... the accounts in the afternoon papers of the peculiar death of Mademoiselle Violette, the little French modiste, up here on ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... in his turn, "I must tell you that I would as soon chip an antique statue to suit the taste of a French modiste as disfigure the work of him who designed ...
— A Set of Rogues • Frank Barrett |
